Dunno, had this idea to write a Things That Are Cool list and was curious what other people would add.
Here's mine so far...
Things that are cool
Monkeys (you can't beat monkeys!)
Movies with hot chicks
Movies with hot chicks shooting things
Movies with zombies
Movies with hot chicks shooting zombies
Heroes who say something witty after dispatching the bad guy
Ahhhnold!!
Giant robots
Ninjas
Did I mention monkeys?
Superheros
I like the Garbage Pail Kid avatar.
Did you know that one of them was Bad Breath Seth? (My name is Seth.)
Cool things:
- My family
- Computer games
- iPods (which greatly facilitate exercise)
- Wednesdays off
- Call nights in which I don't get called
- Fluffy kitty cats. =)
- Piano lessons
and
- God. (God is cool.)
Machinguns
Revolvers
Angelina Jolie
Clint Eastwood
Steve Mcqueen
Edward G. Robinson
Muscle Cars
Hendrix
AC/DC
Tigers winning the series
-booze
-smokes
-guitars
-motocycles
-leather jackets
-lava lamps
-shades
-rock t-shirts
-knives and swords
-any girl that is hot is automatically cool
that's all I can think of right now
My cool list consists of:
Cherry Coke
Pepperoni Pizza
Top Sirloin Steak
Bad-but-funny movies (especially Troll 2 and Pieces ftw)
Anything Spider-Man related (including my antenna ornament)
Cats and Ferrets
My (sort-of?) g/f (I'm still not sure just what terms we're on here.)
Lovecraft
My old high school buddies
My new Movie Review Website that I'll be setting up next month (and you're all invited to see it, as soon as I figure out how to make a darn webpage again)
First off: BMT, love the avatar that takes a brother back.
Anyway, my list.
Anything Spider-Man as well
Comic Book Art (except Rob Liefield)
Black strip clubs
The New York Mets winning the World Series
The New York Giants winning the Super Bowl
Eating all the junk food you want and still be thin
Finally being in Freetown, Sierra Leone and seeing my grandmother and other relatives for the first time :smile:.
Starting a family with a nice girl who's a geek like me but with slutty tendencies
Tara Sue and the kids
Having my own house!!! My own!!!! I'ts like a dream come true!!!
NOT drinking booze
old monster magazines from the 60's and 70's
the RAMONES
Iggy and the Stooges
thunderstorms
Bela Lugosi
Will Eisner's the SPIRIT and Jack Kirby
ufos
books on serial killers
fried chicken
hot sauce
peanut butter
Did I mention cheezy old movies?
Snoopy (Joe Cool after all)
Cold pizza for breakfast on your day off
Popping popcorn the old-fashioned way
bolt action rifles, breaktop revolvers, and Broomhandle Mausers
Being in the best shape I've ever been and healthy for once
Claudia Cardinale
George MacDonald Fraser books
Lone Wolf and Cub
Sexy Beast
Paul Newman
Miles Davis
Willie Nelson (usually)
Stir fry with sweet Thai chili sauce and mango
Umaki sushi
My new nephew
My Gil E Jorge CD
The Saw Doctors
The Marx Bros.
sleeping in a warm bed during a thunderstorm, even better when unalone
Monsters (Traditional Horror and Giant Ones)
Rocketships
Ray Guns
Robots (Giant and otherwise)
Scream Queens
Mad Scientists
Square-Jawed Army Leaders
Space Aliens
UFOs
Explosions
Radioactivity
Teen Rebels Wearing Leather or Sports Team Jackets
Fishnet Stockings on the ladies
Fast Cars, Hot Rods, Car Chases
Motorcycles
Musical Numbers
Dick Miller
Bela Lugosi
Boris Karloff
John Carradine
Michael Gough
Christopher Lee
Peter Cushing
Brian Donlevy
Hazel Court
Caroline Munro
Ingrid Pitt
Raquel Welch
Victoria Vetri
Barbara Steele
Anime
Traditional Animation
Stop-Motion Animation (especially Ray Harryhausen and Willis O' Brien)
Superheroes
Tor Johnson
El Santo
Pro Wrestling (Prior Sports Entertainment)
Mutations
Humphrey Bogart
Film Noir
James Cagney
Beach Party Movies
Comic Books
The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The New York Rangers
The Misfits
Black Flag
Drive-Ins
Audrey Hepburn
Angelina Jolie
Bettie Page
Blaxploitation
Kung Fu Movies
Suitmation
Bad Movie Websites
1960s Spy-Fi
1950/60s TV Anthology Series
Irwin Allen's TV Stuff
Disaster Films (Irwin Allen and Others)
Star Trek
Star Wars
Planet of the Apes
Bikinis
Late '60s - early '70s musclecars
The new Mustang
Clint Eastwood
Ahnold
Drinking beer on a boat
Dodge Viper
A big DVD collection of low budget movies
Wide screen high-def TV's (the bigger the cooler)
The Sharper Image catalog
T'Pol on Star Trek Enterprise
Chiana on Farscape
Those wedge-shaped star destroyers on Star Wars
Darth Vader in the original trilogy
Han Solo
Nuking them from orbit
Drinking a bit too much but waking up feeling great the next morning
Cats
Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell in the UFC
Crush your enemies. See them driven before you...and to hear the lamentation of the women. :teddyr:
Did you learn that from a semi-Mongolian chieftan?
Nah, from the Governor of the state I live in. :teddyr:
Pinky stinky skitty kitties ("Fluffy kitty cats")
The Stooges
Old movies
Leave it to Beaver
Short lists
I do think other posters mention way cool stuff like:
Movies with zombies
Edward G. Robinson and Hendrix
Pepperoni Pizza
Shades
old monster magazines from the 60's and 70's
Snoopy
Barbara Steele
Drinking beer on a boat
Believe it or not, there's probably dozens of others things I forgot to include like the classic comedy teams Laurel & Hardy, Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Abott & Costello and the more modern British comedies like Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances. Cannot believe I left out Doctor Who and Kolchak either.
Quote from: JaseSF on April 24, 2007, 12:12:12 PM
Believe it or not, there's probably dozens of others things I forgot to include like the classic comedy teams Laurel & Hardy, Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Abott & Costello and the more modern British comedies like Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances. Cannot believe I left out Doctor Who and Kolchak either.
Marx Brothers :thumbup:
The Three Stooges :thumbup: (I of course referred to Iggy Pop's Detroit rock band)
Kolchak :thumbup:
Some other thing I forgot to mention:
Porn (not that s&m and other freaky crap)
Vampires
Dragons
Anime
Kung fu movies
Movies with topless (and full frontal) ladies
Banana Walnut Muffins
More to come when I think of some
Ed's Cool List:
Kaiju FIlms
Cheese
Felix the Cat
Muppets
Arianna (my daughter) and Anna (wife)
Coffee
Cherries- Black, sweet, fresh
Seattle
well-stocked public libraries
Fog
respectful and fun discussion boards (thanks guys)
The Fallout series
Audiobooks for commuting
The ocean
OK, gotta go
-Ed
For me, being able to talk to friends from all around the world on this forum is cool, I never knew that so many people liked the same kind of Bad Movies, gives me hope for the future of humanity. :smile:
Everything is cool to me. :smile: I'll just list some general things that I like without being to specific.
Family Moments
Creativity
Movies
Elmira, New York
American West-Southwest
California
National Parks/Historic Sites
80's New Wave
Old School Pro Wrestling
Drive-Ins
Horror Host 70's
Internet
Cable TV
Travel
Fantasy
Mythology/Mysticism/Philosophy
Pizza/Taco's/Spaghetti/Buffalo Wings
Sushi
Yoga
Gym
Walking
Napping
Still can't believe no one else mentioned Ninjas (or monkeys).
:)
I think those go without mentioning Bacon Tomato Mustard. My favorite monkeys are Shakmas and Proboscis monkeys and my favorite ninjas are Shino & Dosu.
I completely agree with naps being cool. Also:
Samurai
Castles
Expert horse riders
Astronomy
Bloom County
That sore/warm feeling after a hard days work or exercise
H.P. Lovecraft
Andrew, have you been peeking at my book shelf? :teddyr:
I'll add (or perhaps repeat):
Swords
Monsters
Space ships
Anime
Stuffed animals
Scotch (http://forums.lowerdecks.com/style_emoticons/default/drunk-klingon.gif)
Cigars
Rural greasy-spoon restaurants
Newborn horses
Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love"
Movies with "VS" or "MEETS" in the title
Puppy breath
Seeing the original GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER/ FROGS double feature in a theater
W.C. Fields
Discovering a new obscure director, film, composer, author, etc.
"Homemade Vanilla" Blue Bell ice cream w/ Hersey's chcolate syrup
Kurt Vonnegut
Guy Maddin movies (BRAND ON THE BRAIN coming soon!)
Orangutans
Bernard Herrmann
Akira Ifukube
Home-made wine
Lemurs (particularly Aye-Ayes)
Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Tim Dorsey's "Serge Storm" books
Joni Mitchell
and, of course,
More Monkeys
Mr. Briggs, I remember seeing a photo of a Proboscis monkey in a book when I was in junior high.
Extreme coolness in that monkey.
(Editing this post to add the "R" to Mr. Briggs name was pretty cool of me, I think...) :twirl:
Quote from: Shadowfyre on May 10, 2007, 08:10:12 PM
Andrew, have you been peeking at my book shelf? :teddyr:
No way, you have dogs that protect your place. The last time I tried they nearly licked my toes off.
How could I forget spacecraft? That is a good one.
short stories
cult films
hentai (anime porn)
vitamin water
handheld gaming
comics by Frank Miller or Guido Crepax
Ramen noodles
RPGs
anything starring or involving Bruce Campbell
Chinese Food
Quote from: DENNIS on April 25, 2007, 08:34:49 PM
For me, being able to talk to friends from all around the world on this forum is cool, I never knew that so many people liked the same kind of Bad Movies, gives me hope for the future of humanity. :smile:
or through our free actions doom the free mankind we hope to save. HAHAHAHA!!!!
Quote from: Fausto on May 10, 2007, 11:27:08 PM
anything starring or involving Bruce Campbell
Even Icebreaker?
Which, by the way, is an interesting film to see if you're ever wondered why Bruce never quite "made it" as a mainstream actor. (Don't get me wrong, I love the guy, but he's best when he sticks to certain genres.)
this site is turning out to be one of the coolest I've been to! (not just kissing butt here either)
John Wayne
James Bond
My 24 year old jeans jacket.
Lazy summer afternoons out in the country when you don't have to do anything.
Winter camping. Oh wait, that's cold.
The Ethel Merman Disco Album.